The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The Pentagon Wants an Obedient A.I. Soldier. Will It Get One?

March 18, 2026·34 min·3-min readinterviewpolitics
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Gideon Lewis-Krauss, a staff writer at The New Yorker, expresses deep concern about the military use of AI following reports that Anthropic's large language model, CLAWD, was used in classified operations in Venezuela and Iran without the company's full knowledge, sparking a legal and e

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Gideon Lewis-Krauss

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Gideon Lewis-KraussEmile MichaelPete HegsethSam Altman

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AnthropicPalantirOpenAI

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CLAWD

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Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityEthicsInvestigative JournalismLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningUs Politics

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